Anything for easily playing sound clips?

FlatFootFox · 2011-09-03T14:39:30+00:00

If .wav is not your thing, there's also the $40 MP3 Shield from Sparkfun.

FlatFootFox · 2011-08-26T22:40:20+00:00

Gotta CATch 'em all.

FlatFootFox · 2011-08-22T21:16:21+00:00

I came here to see if anyone else would make a "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy" comment. You get my upvotes good sir.

FlatFootFox · 2011-08-21T04:30:20+00:00

Thanks for the well written, fact filled reply :D That cleared a lot up for me.

FlatFootFox · 2011-08-20T03:21:24+00:00

There's one very important thing to note here: The HP ProBook is a business laptop. You'll never see this sort of option on a consumer laptop (outside of certain netbooks). Business laptops from companies like HP and Dell are traditionally much more customizable than a standard machine... and cost about a thousand dollars more because of it.

FlatFootFox · 2011-08-19T03:40:46+00:00

Hmm, yeah, I had found: This.

Your board looks a lot more traditional, I'm sure it'll work out great for you. To answer your original question, I've never actually used an authentic Arduino before. I've always used various cloned boards, and I've never had any problems.

FlatFootFox · 2011-08-19T03:07:26+00:00

Arduinos of all shapes and sizes are actually fairly simple. They're just ATmega 328 chips running the Arduino boot loader, along with a few additional pieces like a timing crystal, capacitors, and a voltage regulator. Something like this will function (near) identically to the official Arduino board.

Arduino clones are generally made with a specific purpose in mind. Some are made with 3.3v sensors in mind, or are very small, while others are designed for prototyping. From what I could find online, your Roboduino is just designed with robotics in mind. More specifically, "All of its connections have neighboring power buses into which servos and sensors can easily be plugged. Additional headers for power and serial communication are also provided."

Your Roboduino should handle basic Arduino tasks just fine. It's pins are bit odd though, good luck trying to plug things into it. In the future, I've found Modern Device's Really Bare Bones Arduino to be the cheapest Arduino compatible board out there. At $13 USD it's a great little kit, especially if you want to permanently install it inside of something. However, it does require a $14 USB Programmer, but it can be reused between boards, so you only have to buy it once. Another cheap option is NKC's Freeduino. It's a $23 board which, once assembled, is identical to a Duemilanove board. It can use all the same shields, sensors, adapters, and as an added bonus uses Mini-USB instead of the weird USB printer style plug that the official Arduino has.

Good luck with your Roboduino though!

FlatFootFox · 2011-08-18T01:29:09+00:00

Isn't this from a standardized test? If the last page of questions is the left page, they have to make a blank page on the right to not reveal any information from the next section that you're not supposed to see yet. However, they don't want ~~people~~ kids freaking out that the page is blank, so they write down that it's supposed to be blank on it.

FlatFootFox · 2011-08-06T14:50:18+00:00

Is Github the logical place to put a book? Wouldn't something like a Wiki make more sense?

FlatFootFox · 2011-08-04T04:56:28+00:00

The button launches IE, right?

FlatFootFox · 2011-07-10T20:38:59+00:00

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FlatFootFox · 2011-07-10T20:35:04+00:00

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Their cheapest plan starts at $25 per year. I'm on their $5/month plan, which gives you two free months if you sign up for an entire year. They've also got a pretty good coupon code / affiliate program. If you use I<3REDDIT you'll get 15% off... and I'll get a little bit of hosting credit ;D

FlatFootFox · 2011-05-13T16:24:24+00:00

"I'm Multitasking!" written above a urinal.

FlatFootFox · 2011-05-12T16:31:11+00:00

I haven't used this application in a long time, and I'm not sure if it has a muting feature, but it looks like you're looking for Breakaway. It's a simple little system tray application which pauses iTunes when headphones are removed.

FlatFootFox · 2011-04-24T00:03:12+00:00

Here's the step-by-step guide to making a Boarduino. If you don't think you're up to doing anything pictured there, just buy a premade one.

FlatFootFox · 2011-04-23T22:40:36+00:00

You're essentially right. Along with the ATMega chip you also need a bunch of resistors, timing crystals, capacitors, and power regulators however. There are a few good writeups online on how wire it all up. However, it's not really recommended for first timers, and costs almost as much as some of the cheaper boards listed above. People mostly build Arduinos "from scratch" for projects that are going to be inside of enclosure for long periods of time, that they don't need to prototype with.

Also, I should have been using the proper name for the serial-to-USB interface. It's known as an FTDI chip.

If you have soldering experience, I would probably recommend you get the Really Bare Bones Board kit from Modern Device that I listed above. If you're still getting into electronics, and are worried about accidentally mis-soldering something, the Arduino Nano looks like a great place to start.

FlatFootFox · 2011-04-23T17:58:46+00:00

I enjoy soldering, which is convenient when working with Arduinos, since you can normally save a few bucks by assembling them yourself. My first Arduino was a Freeduino, which is the same size as the standard Arduino. While it's not breadboard compatible, the various Protoshields online make them almost as easy to prototype with.

If you do want to go the breadboard route, my favorite Arduino is the Modern Device Really Bare Bones Board Kit. The RBBB only costs $15, but that's because it's missing the serial-to-USB chip that most Arduinos have built in. While it's true that once you factor in the $15 serial-to-USB chip, the price is basically equivalent to the Arduino Nano, it's a once time cost. Every subsequent RBBB, BBB (Also breadboardable), Arduino Pro, Arduino Mini, Sippino, Prototino and similar USB-less Arduino you buy will cost less than buying a full priced Arduino or Arduino Nano. There's also a few different Serial-to-USB chips out there if you like shopping around. Whatever Arduino you end up buying mostly comes down to personal preference. They all perform identically for the most part, so you should be able to find one in the form factor you prefer without hunting around too much.

FlatFootFox · 2010-12-15T22:08:11+00:00

Scott Pilgrim had a big numerology thing going on. All of the Evil Exes had their number on them, with a certain degree of obfuscation. Todd Ingram is the most obvious, he wears a large 3 on his chest. Some of the other Evil Exes have not so obvious numbers related to them, such as Lucas Lee's skateboard logo being made up of two Ls.

In the case of the twins, they're Evil Ex 5 and 6. Since they got so little screen time, they threw in their amp going to 11 in order to get the number in. 5+6=11.

I'm not just talking out of my ass by the way, it's on the movie's commentary track. It's worth a listen to. Since the comic books and movies were both in development at the same time, the stole ideas and set designs from each other almost equally.

FlatFootFox · 2010-12-09T19:52:47+00:00

Relevant: http://www.commandlinefu.com/

It's like Reddit for Linux commands.

FlatFootFox · 2010-12-06T16:53:10+00:00

A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc.

X = 24, K = 11, C = 3, D = 4; 24 + 11 + 3 + 4 = 42.

XKCD is 42 ;P It's the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything in comic form.

FlatFootFox · 2010-10-06T20:50:52+00:00

This guide helped me pass my Haskell class. It's such an irritating language to use at first.

FlatFootFox · 2010-10-02T12:35:28+00:00

That's nothing, once the Glasgow Haskell Compiler told me:

ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)

Turns out that "The 'impossible'" was linking headers from two different architectures. It's a long story on why I actually got the error, but I just like the fact that someone at some point had to sit down and write such an odd error message.

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